On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -0000, Curt wrote: > >> On 2020-04-10, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > >> > > >> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > >> > >> It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and > >> the OP I > >> believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation services. > > > > And GNOME Maps has this neat library as a dependency that can use > > geolocation regardless of the said setting. > > So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in > the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in his > privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings? > > That is really an egregious bug, then, and should be reported.
Perhaps just a misunderstanding, and Gnome simply calls "geolocation" to call into whatever API thingmajig your smartphone offers to query the GPS+plus+cell-tower position determination Rube Goldbergism? Falling back to Ip based guessing when that fails (or is disallowed)? I just don't know. Cheers -- tomás
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